2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.01.007
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Linkages between local knowledge drought forecasting indicators and scientific drought forecasting parameters in the Limpopo River Basin in Southern Africa

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“…Bio-physical entities in the environment such as migration patterns of birds (Richardson 1990), changes in the reproduction behaviours of insects, characteristics of winds and constellation of celestial bodies all provide practical proxies for weather and climate (Acharya 2011). Though Afar pastoralists cannot directly measure the weather variables, they can directly observe the bio-physical manifestations with their senses (Chisadza et al 2015). The interpretation of these bio-physical variables is therefore used as a proxy for weather change and variation (Fig.…”
Section: A Theoretical Framework For Understanding Indigenous Weathermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Bio-physical entities in the environment such as migration patterns of birds (Richardson 1990), changes in the reproduction behaviours of insects, characteristics of winds and constellation of celestial bodies all provide practical proxies for weather and climate (Acharya 2011). Though Afar pastoralists cannot directly measure the weather variables, they can directly observe the bio-physical manifestations with their senses (Chisadza et al 2015). The interpretation of these bio-physical variables is therefore used as a proxy for weather change and variation (Fig.…”
Section: A Theoretical Framework For Understanding Indigenous Weathermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(4) Understanding day-to-day climate conditions is very important to the pastoralists as it guides their daily activities; this makes it important at all levels, that is, at the villages, districts, rangeland and urban centres. Therefore, even when it is accessible, affordable and correctly interpretable, conventional weather forecasting information is seldom relevant to the daily decision-making of pastoralists (Chisadza et al 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In this connection, operational approaches on global-and continental-scale drought monitoring [6,[17][18][19][20] as well as remote sensing-based studies on droughts in Africa focussing on selected regions and/or periods are to be mentioned. Here, topics of current interest are the ongoing debate on the Sahelian "greening" [21][22][23], drought during 2010/2011 in the Horn of Africa [13,[24][25][26], rainfall and vegetation-related drought dynamics in southern Africa [27][28][29][30], continental-scale drought assessment [12,31,32] as well as the relation between droughts in Africa and ENSO [9,[33][34][35][36]. However, either studies accounted for drought assessment on rather small regional scales and did not assess the continental level or little attention was paid to drought affecting agriculturally relevant areas and time periods.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%